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Essence Quotes

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Future Past Essence Prudent Concern

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul Noble Essence Egoism Very

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alive Selfishness Nothing Essence

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Meaning Essence Word Object Divorced

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

Will Craft Successful Essence Funds

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

Painting Ability Essence Something

When lines are great, they're easy to do. You just find the essence of it, and you do it.

Great Easy You Find Essence Just

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

Good Will Next Essence

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Religions Essence Different Only

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

History Ideas Human Essence

Desire is the essence of a man.

Man Desire Essence

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

John Desmond Bernal

Science Long Possible Essence Proof

I could not have been happier with 'The Lincoln Lawyer.' They got the essence, and the casting, starting with McConaughey, was just perfect.

Michael Connelly

Lawyer Perfect Starting Essence Been

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

Science Biology Essence Inseparable

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

Michael O'Donoghue

Baby Comedy True Essence Hunt Seal

Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful.

Life Beautiful World Sadness Essence

There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.

Funny Dog Own Guy Essence Something

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

Innovation Time Fail Essence Most

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

Possible Essence Other Novel Form

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

Mirrors Movies Essence

Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

Kenneth Frazier

Job People You Try Jury Essence

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Henry Kissinger

Loneliness Essence Richard Nixon

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

Life Truth Service Essence Scientist

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Brainy Reason Essence Instinct Very

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